Amelia's beautiful coat

Amelia Fielden and Jerry Ball in the garden during haiku conference. Japan 2007.

Amelia is an Australian poet well known for her own volumes of tanka poetry.
Jerry is known for his shirt-pocket notebook for writing haiku whenever.

a dew-washed morning

light barely light

here is the chance

to begin afresh

to forgive then forget

Amelia Fielden

Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry

Summer 2007, vol 5 no 2

Amelia Fielden is an Australian living near Sydney. She is a professional Japanese translator and holds a Master of Arts degree in Japanese Literature. To date, working sometimes with native speaker co-translators, sometimes solo, Amelia has produced eight books of contemporary Japanese tanka in translation; currently she is working on a ninth, with Dr.Kozue Uzawa, editor of Gusts (journal of Tanka Canada). A poet in her own right, four volumes of Amelia's original English-language tanka are in print, and a fifth is underway. (Note from Journal cited above.)